New Relic Survey Unearths Observability Challenges
A New Relic survey found only 27% of respondents have achieved full-stack observability with only 5% claiming they have a mature observability practice in place. A third (33%) of respondents also said they still primarily detect outages manually or based on complaints, the survey found. The global survey polled 1,614 respondents, including 1,044 practitioners and […]
The Secret to Secrets Management: Reduce Source Code Vulnerabilities
We are in the cyberattack age. From Microsoft to Crypto.com, no company is completely safe from malicious attackers, and it seems as if a new major cyberattack is announced weekly, if not more frequently. As more companies not only go digital but expand their digital offerings and initiatives, there are more opportunities for cyberattackers. Security […]
Force Me Back to the Office? Apple ‘Hasn’t Learned Anything’
In this week’s The Long View: New ways of working. Whether it’s remote work, enforced hybrid working or a four-day working week, let’s triage the trends and futz with the future.
Where DataOps and Opportunities Converge
In today’s data age, getting data analytics right is more essential than ever. A robust data analytics implementation enables businesses to hit key performance metrics, build data and AI-driven customer experiences (think ‘personalize my feed’) and capture operational issues before they spiral out of control. The list of competitive advantages goes on, but the bottom […]
Agile Sucks (Redux) | Plus: DevOps on Mars
In this week’s The Long View: Agile is bad, but “Wagile” is worse. Plus: This prod is even worse than yours.
Techstrong TV: Styra Declarative Authorization Service
Styra’s new launch of Styra Declarative Authorization Service (DAS) for Cloud-Native Entitlements. With this solution, IAM teams can move to cloud-native technologies while still using existing systems-of-record as well as scale to the level that their organization requires. The video is below followed by a transcript of the conversation. Alan Shimel: Hello, everyone. Thanks for […]
The Rogers Outage of 2022: Takeaways for SREs
When, eight years from now, folks are creating lists of the top IT incidents of the 2020s, there’s a good chance that they’ll include the Rogers outage of 2022. The failure, which made internet and cellular network service unavailable for more than 12 million users across Canada, was one of the most significant outages in […]
5 Ways to Prevent an Outage
In today’s always-on, ever-connected world, we all expect 100% availability. What gets in the way of this? The devil is in the details. Over time, everything breaks: Disks, nodes, containers, networks, DNS servers and configuration issues can all lead to major outages. Amazon’s 13 minutes of downtime in August 2021 translated to almost $5 million […]
Why You Should Rip Up Your Org Chart and Reorganize Around Value Streams
To compete in the digital economy, teams must optimize both efficiency and effectiveness–it’s a tough ask. The traditional dominator hierarchy is a problem because organizations that use command and control create silos and handoffs that stifle innovation at the team level. Coordinated autonomy releases the creative spirit of individuals–but how can leaders assure alignment with […]
Open Standards Are Key For Realizing Observability
Observability has quickly become a major focus of enterprise DevOps. Yet tool sprawl and complexity can hold some observability initiatives back. The 2022 CNCF Microsurvey on observability trends found that 23% of organizations use between 10 and 15 tools for monitoring, metrics and gathering logging and tracing data. A full 50% also noted that engineers and […]
Putting the Security Into DevSecOps
The non-Newtonian fluid that’s composed of cornstarch and water has been around a long time, but Dr. Seuss’ 1949 book was the impetus for what it’s often called today – Oobleck, from “Bartholomew and the Oobleck.” When not under pressure, Oobleck is a thin liquid; when pressure is applied, its resistance increases to the point […]
VW CEO Fired for Dev Fails | Fiber Shortage Hits | Google Fires Blake Lemoine
In this week’s The Long View: Herbert Diess is out at VW because software is hard (yo), fiber optic cable is hard to find, and the guy who said LaMDA was sentient is dumped by Google.
Techstrong TV: Value Stream Management & Value Creation
Lance Knight, ConnectALL President and COO, joins us directly from the Agile 2022 conference. Lance discusses the concepts of value stream management and value creation. The video and a transcript of the conversation are below. […]
Deciphering the Observability Market
Observability has become one of the most overused buzzwords in IT and cybersecurity. Today, the term is used by vendors to refer to everything from application performance to network monitoring, cybersecurity and data and analytics. While the term’s ubiquity has created confusion for everyone from end users to journalists, startups in the space have also […]
Why More Incidents Are Better
Ask most SREs how many incidents they’d have to respond to in a perfect world, and their answer would probably be ‘zero.’ After all, making software and infrastructure so reliable that incidents never occur is the dream that SREs are theoretically chasing. Reducing the number of actual incidents as much as possible is a noble […]
5 Mean-Time Reliability Metrics To Follow
Most folks working in DevOps or SRE roles are familiar with metrics like mean-time-to-recovery (MTTR). Keeping track of the average time a team takes to respond to incidents is crucial to identifying bottlenecks in the support process. It’s also something executives like to show higher-ups when sharing a snapshot of overall platform performance. However, focusing […]
Rust in Linux 5.20 | Deepfake Hiring Fraud | IBM WFH ‘New Normal’
In this week’s The Long View: Linus says next release will support Rust, FBI warns scammers are getting hired in deepfake interviews, and 80% of IBM staff stay at home.
Cloudflare Outage Outrage | Yet More FAA 5G Stupidity
In this week’s The Long View: Cloudflare suffers another huge outage while the FAA and FCC still disagree over 5G/NR near airports.
The Age of Software Supply Chain Disruption
The software supply chain is swiftly becoming a widespread attack vector, and securing it is now in the spotlight. Software supply chain attacks have become a given in 2022, reports Darktrace. SolarWinds, Kaseya and GitLab are just a few examples of organizations that have been vulnerable to attack in recent years. We’ve also witnessed an increasing […]
Armory Aims to Turn Continuous Delivery Into a Service
Armory this week made generally available a continuous delivery-as-a-service (CDaaS) offering that promises to make it simpler for a much wider range of organizations to programmatically deploy applications. The Armory Continuous Deployment-as-a-Service platform has been available in beta since March. It differs from Armory’s existing open source Spinnaker continuous delivery (CD) platform in that it […]
Improving Observability With ML-Enabled Anomaly Detection
Nowadays, DevOps and SRE teams have many tools to access and analyze logging data. However, there are two challenges that prevent these teams from resolving issues in a timely manner: They aren’t equipped with all the data they need Detecting and resolving issues is reactive and manual In this article, I’m going to break down […]
The Future of Low-Code Development
The days when IT teams relied on clunky software development processes and labor-intensive hand-coding to build tangible, reliable and modern applications are coming to an end. With the rise of new automation technology, rapidly rising expectations and demands from innovation-craving customers and end users and a shortage of developers, the software sector has been forced […]
What Should Elon Musk Do? | Passwordless Future: Tense | WebKit iOS Monopoly Ends?
In this week’s The Long View: Everyone has Twitter advice for Elon Musk, passwordless vision is vacuous, and Apple prevented from forcing Safari.